"No" on Intellectual Pluralism

George Archibald:

"There are no secret agendas here. Divergency [of views] in the classroom is being stifled. More and more, what we can say in the classroom is being restricted," said Mr. Jackson, a high school English teacher from Kennewick, Wash.

Teachers have a responsibility "to instruct students how to think, not to indoctrinate," he said. "All this is trying to do is to open this up and to prevent restriction" of the academic freedom of students as well as teachers.

But Tom Oxter, president of a Florida higher-education group that led the fight before the Florida Legislature against a similar campaign for a student academic bill of rights there, denounced the proposal as "really just the beginning of a witch hunt" by conservatives.

Via Joanne Jacobs. Joanne also summarizes the NEA's comments on the Achievement Gap.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at July 9, 2005 9:51 PM
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